Need Help Finding NPR Story

HadjiQuest

I've been looking for a recent NPR story for the last 2 hours, and even with the help of a couple friends, I've been unable to find it.

I'm pretty sure it was on All Things Considered, and it ran sometime between September of last year up to a week or so ago.

I don't know if it was the specific focus of the story, but the part I'm looking for was about certain colleges and universities altering their liberal arts/general education courses because they feel many students who have grown up in the information explosion already have very strong basic skills in reading comprehension and information processing.

Can anyone help me find it? Similar stories would also be appreciated.

Slagmire

http://www.npr.org/templates/calendar/index.php?prgId=2

Don't know if you found this URL yet, but it looks like it might be right up your alley, Hadji. The archive goes as far back as 1996 and it breaks down each portion of the show as well as having the entire broadcast to listen to.

EDIT: Plus, it's not just All Things Considered - it has all shows from NPR it looks like.

JoeUser

HadjiQuest wrote: »

I've been looking for a recent NPR story for the last 2 hours, and even with the help of a couple friends, I've been unable to find it.

I'm pretty sure it was on All Things Considered, and it ran sometime between September of last year up to a week or so ago.

I don't know if it was the specific focus of the story, but the part I'm looking for was about certain colleges and universities altering their liberal arts/general education courses because they feel many students who have grown up in the information explosion already have very strong basic skills in reading comprehension and information processing.

Can anyone help me find it? Similar stories would also be appreciated.

Maybe this?

Education Tuning Shows What Students Learned

A new approach at some universities, known as education tuning, will require that degrees reflect a defined set of skills, rather than a list of the courses a student took.

HadjiQuest

JoeUser wrote: »

HadjiQuest wrote: »

I've been looking for a recent NPR story for the last 2 hours, and even with the help of a couple friends, I've been unable to find it.

I'm pretty sure it was on All Things Considered, and it ran sometime between September of last year up to a week or so ago.

I don't know if it was the specific focus of the story, but the part I'm looking for was about certain colleges and universities altering their liberal arts/general education courses because they feel many students who have grown up in the information explosion already have very strong basic skills in reading comprehension and information processing.

Can anyone help me find it? Similar stories would also be appreciated.

Maybe this?

Education Tuning Shows What Students Learned

A new approach at some universities, known as education tuning, will require that degrees reflect a defined set of skills, rather than a list of the courses a student took.

Nah, that's not it.

And I looked at the calendar, but still couldn't find the story.